R2009-65 AUTHORIZING EXECUTION OF A TIRE LEASE AGREEMENT

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, As used in this Agreement, "tires" shall mean a casing for a tubeless type tire; the term "City buses" shall mean, unless otherwise indicated, all of the transit coaches and trolley replica coaches owned or leased by the City at any time during the term of this Agreement. Tire sizes to be specified under this lease agreement shall include, but not be limited to the following: a) 9R22.5; b) 275/70R22.5; and c) 315/80R22.SCTR. Only new tires and retreaded tires shall be accepted or utilized by the City; regrooved tires shall not be accepted or utilized by the City. The City agrees to provide wheels or rims and all necessary equipment and supplies, and to ', assume complete responsibility for servicing all tires delivered hereunder, including, but not limited to, driving vehicles to and from tire service facilities, making all wheel changes, keeping tires inflated to an air pressure recommended by the Contractor, having air lines conveniently placed to take proper care of the inflating of tires, keeping wheels in alignment and brakes properly adjusted, mounting and demounting tires from rims, providing safe and suitable space inside its garage for the secure storage of tires and wheels, and making all repairs on tires and wheels which may be necessary to keep them in proper running condition, without charge to the Contractor. The City further agrees to permit any authorized representative of the Contractor to inspect and to inventory the tires and wheels on vehicles, together with extra tires and wheels. The City shall at all times, when requested, advise the Contractor of the location of all vehicles and extra tires and wheels to permit such inspection and inventory. The Contractor agrees to perform such inspections at least once every one hundred eighty (180) calendar days. The Contractor shall be responsible for branding the sidewall of the tires with an identification number as a means of record keeping. It shall not be the responsibility of the City to provide the Contractor individual tire brand numbers and tire changes on a per tire basis. However, if the City changes tires, the City shall provide the Contractor monthly tire change information sufficient to identify the number of tires applied/removed by vehicle number and the date of the change. 5. PAYMENT FOR SERVICES The City agrees to provide to the Contractor, by the tenth day of each month, an accurate record of the daily miles driven by each City bus during the preceding month. The Contractor agrees to provide to the City an invoice for the mileage driven by City buses using its tires, by tire size, on the basis of the rates set forth in"Attachment A". The City shall remit payment by check within thirty (30) days after receipt of a completed invoice. The City agrees to use a method of computing and recording tire mileage of the City buses which is acceptable to the Contractor, and to allow the Contractor or its agents the right, at any reasonable time during normal business hours,to audit the City's records for the purpose of verifying actual vehicle mileage. The City agrees to furnish state and federal tax exemption certificate numbers to the Contractor for any sales, excise, use, disposal, processing or similar taxes or fees imposed upon the tires to be provided under this Agreement. Decatur Public Transit System 2 Tire Lease Agreement